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The Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $115,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| HILLSIDES HOME FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| GREENSPRINGS FIRE & RESCUE | $30,000 |
| NATURE BRIDGE | $25,000 |
| AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE | $21,500 |
| ASANTE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TALENT MAKER CITY | $18,500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $16,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $16,500 |
| PACIFIC FOREST TRUST | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVATORY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $536k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
53 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES9× · 2017–2025 · $574k · revenue +92%- PHPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital8× · 2017–2025 · $292k · revenue +34%
- GFGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +96% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- PHPIH Health Incone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +4%
- FOFRIENDS OF CASCADE SISKIYOU NATIONALone grant, 2022 · $15k
- TFTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +117%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Food Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital ↗
- Who funds GREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PIH Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ROGUE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TALENT MAKER CITY ↗
- Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Harry & Yvonne Lenart Charitable Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Quinn Hill Foundation · Elizabeth G Maughan Charitable Foundation · Gardner Grout Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Anna May Family Foundation · Raymond Family Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · Sangham Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Klamath Bird Observatory — 100% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greensprings Fire and Rescue — 18% of income from government
- Rogue Community Health — 13% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ashland Community Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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